Description
John Hammond offers an introduction to the life and work of H G Wells which is of interest and value to both the student and the general reader. Although Wells is studied at undergradute level there is no introductory text available as yet, instead students can only consult full length detailed biographies. John Hammond provides a concise overview allowing the student to read Wells with greater critical appreciation and to undertand the main areas of discussion and disagreement concerning the author.
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART ONE: THE WRITER AND HIS SETTING
Family tree
Chronological table
CHAPTER 1: HIS LIFE AND TIMES
Early years
The student
Journalism and early fiction
The middle years
The later years
CHAPTER 2: WELLS AND HIS WORLD
The influence of place
The town of his birth
Town and country
A PREFACE TO H. G. WELLS
The London of his fiction
The autobiographical novels
Wells's prose style
PART TWO : CRITICAL COMMENTARY
The science fiction of the 1890s
The social novels
The narrative voice
Classical and romantic
Wells and modernism
Utopia and dystopia
The novel as myth: The Time Machine
Tono-Btmgay: the divided self
PART THREE: REFERENCE SECTION
Wells and his circle: sh ort biographies
A Wells geography
Wells's literary reputation
Further reading and refermce
Index
Index of Well's Works
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